| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2002] All ER (D) 410 (Oct) |
| Court: | Court of Appeal, Criminal Division |
| Judge: | Rose LJ, Hughes and Royce JJ |
| Representation | Robert Spencer Bernard (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the defendant. |
| Peter Coombe (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service) for the Crown. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 28 October 2002 |
Catchwords
Criminal evidence and procedure - Conviction - Unsafe conviction - Inconsistent verdicts.
The Case
A conviction for theft of a postal packet was quashed as unsafe on the ground that the jury had reached inconsistent verdicts, having acquitted the defendant on another related count on the indictment.
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